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iamthebandfanman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 09:53 AM Original message |
Poll question: A quick question for progressives/lefties |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 09:55 AM Response to Original message |
1. progressives have been screwed over for the past few decades... |
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iamthebandfanman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 09:57 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. i just cant figure it out |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 10:03 AM Response to Reply #2 |
11. Simple, because people to the right don't pander to the left. |
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RuleOfNah (603 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 10:27 AM Response to Reply #2 |
14. Why? Rightie monopolies on money, greed, avarice... |
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Kolesar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 10:01 AM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Actually, I think the people "get" globalization and our jobs being sucked overseas |
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Kolesar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 09:57 AM Response to Original message |
3. Ha! Could base a whole website on that premise. Call it the "Democratic Underground". |
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electron_blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 09:59 AM Response to Original message |
4. Well you said it - you'll vote for anybody who gets the nom. |
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iamthebandfanman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 10:00 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. but they risk so much by doing that |
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electron_blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 10:05 AM Response to Reply #6 |
13. I, for one, am looking forward to the day when the far left is pandered to. :) |
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Jackpine Radical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 10:00 AM Response to Original message |
5. OK--I'm reasonably content with my candidate (Edwards) as a progressive, but |
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Kolesar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 10:03 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Barack has a well conceived message of international responsibility |
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Jackpine Radical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 10:59 AM Response to Reply #9 |
19. His health care plan is bad. Policies toward corporate regulation-- |
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Kolesar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 03:45 PM Response to Reply #19 |
39. He had a poor position on coal, but Obama backtracked away from that |
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Yael (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 10:02 AM Response to Original message |
8. Of course. They know we will lock step behind the nominee |
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iamthebandfanman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 10:04 AM Response to Reply #8 |
12. as i said to another reply |
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Le Taz Hot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 10:31 AM Response to Reply #8 |
16. Uh, well, no, "we" won't be doing anything of the sort. |
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Yael (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 11:23 AM Response to Reply #16 |
21. I have the same struggle |
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Individualist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 11:31 AM Response to Reply #8 |
26. "we" don't vote lockstep. |
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krabigirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 12:17 PM Response to Reply #8 |
32. it wears me down, really. |
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Annces (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 10:03 AM Response to Original message |
10. I am glad there are still elections |
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Dhalgren (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 10:30 AM Response to Reply #10 |
15. It is left up to Exxon Oil and we do have a dictatorship. |
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Annces (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 10:52 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Thanks |
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Dhalgren (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 10:59 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. That whole culture is very "under" studied, I think. |
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On the Road (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 11:00 AM Response to Original message |
20. By DU Standards, |
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wuushew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 11:26 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. I doubt that. Where are you on the political compass? |
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On the Road (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 03:38 PM Response to Reply #22 |
38. Kind of a Strange Mixture |
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Rydz777 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 11:27 AM Response to Original message |
23. Absent Kucinich, Edwards is the best we can get. I'm not optimistic |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 11:29 AM Response to Original message |
24. The corporation and its aims/interests are ALWAYS "represented" ahead of humane concerns |
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Mountainman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 11:29 AM Response to Original message |
25. The country wants change but it is not ready to move sharply left. |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 11:38 AM Response to Reply #25 |
29. Well, Reagan's regime pushed to the ugly right while disguising it just enough for dupes who require |
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dpbrown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 11:33 AM Response to Original message |
27. The "left" doesn't represent a constituency they feel constitutes a great enough threat |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 11:35 AM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Yep, time for mass non-violent CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE to shake em up |
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krabigirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 12:19 PM Response to Reply #27 |
33. Perhaps that will change after this recession/depression takes it's full toll.. |
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in_cog_ni_to (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
30. Well, yes. Ever since Kerry and Kennedy came forth to endorse Obama. 2 different scenarios have run |
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krabigirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
31. Not just yes, but HELL yes, and it's our turn! Tired of the right-wing pandering!!! |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 12:19 PM Response to Original message |
34. At the presidential level only |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 12:27 PM Response to Original message |
35. i wonder what it would feel like to be "pandered" to. |
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in_cog_ni_to (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 12:46 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. I want to know why they want to become the party we hate! WHY would Democrats want to be "Moderate/ |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 02:21 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. maybe they never got the memo about the country moving left? |
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